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For passengers of the steamboat "Wawaset," August 8, 1873, began with a pleasant cruise from Washington, D.C., down the Potomac River. As the Wawaset came into sight of a small Virginia landing, fire broke out below decks, and frantic passengers leapt from the flames only to be pulled down by the swift waters. Author Alvin F. Oickle puts a human face to the tragedy as he profiles some of the seventy-five who perished, among them young mother Alethea Gray and six members of the Reed family. With a fast-paced style and firsthand accounts, Oickle masterfully narrates the last run of the "Wawaset" against the backdrop of a tense post Civil War society.

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• Full title: Disaster on the Potomac: The Last Run of the Steamboat Wawaset
• Author: Alvin F. Oickle
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 127
• EAN: 9781596298132
• ISBN: 1596298138
• ID: 12343574
• Publisher: HISTORY PR INC
• Weight: 227 g
• Dimensions: 226 × 150 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: November 2009

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